Fall issue of MQR available

The life and work of late Cuban poet
Dulce Maria Loynaz and a probing essay by Jack David Eller are
featured in the fall issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review
(MQR).

Loynaz, a prominent poet in her youth, was ignored, her work all
but forgotten for much of the last half-century. In the last few
years, renewed interest in her work, both in Cuba and abroad, is
demonstrated by new publication of her work and her winning the
prestigious Cervantes prize in 1992, just five years before her
death.

Included in the MQR issue is a biographical and critical
essay, "Dulce Maria Loynaz: A Woman Who No Longer Exists," by Ruth
Behar, professor of anthropology, as well as a portfolio of new
English translations of Loynaz's poetry. Behar, Judith Kerman and
David Frye translated Loynaz's work, and several of Behar's own poems
are included in the issue.

In other works, Jack Eller, a professor of anthropology at Loretto
Heights College in Denver, attempts to define "one of the most
elastic of social concepts," ethnicity. He explains the term's often
misunderstood and ever-expanding role in society. The essay,
"Ethnicity, Culture and `The Past,'" is adapted from his book From
Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on
International Ethnic Conflict, which will be published next year
by the U-M Press.

In addition to Behar, the work of several other current and former
U-M faculty members appears in this issue, including Edmund Creeth,
Barbara Ryan and Peter Sparling.

Also appearing in the issue are fiction and poetry by Ivy Goodman,
Sharon O'Dair, Richard Blanco, Catherine Staples, Edwin Honig and
Gary Pacernick, and book reviews by Barbara Ryan and Wesley McNair.

The fall issue is available in local bookstores and in the
MQR office, Room 3032, Rackham Building. For more information,
consult the MQR Website at www.umich.edu/~mqr/ or call 764-9265.